Are the Dodgers now baseball’s cursed squad?
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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Should St. Óscar Romero have been canonized back in El Salvador?
El Salvador celebrates the canonization of their patron saint—but should the ceremony have taken place in San Salvador?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Spiritual direction for the second half of life
“No matter how long or short our lifespan,” Barbara Lee writes, “we live our spiritual life in the present.”
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An interview with Jim Gavin, creator of whimsical, offbeat “Lodge 49”
“Lodge 49” is a “very personal story” for creator Jim Gavin. “It’s about losing a parent and losing everything you worked for as a family.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
John Irving wrestles with religious themes new and old
One of the leading novelists of our age on faith, fiction and his distrust of religious institutions.
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The otherworldly science fiction of China’s Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy, a series of science-fiction novels first published in China a decade ago, has been called “the Chinese Star Wars.”
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Sarajevo ethics conference: “no to exclusion and idolatry, yes to building bridges.”
Catholic moral theologians from around the globe conclude an international ethics conference with calls for prophetic action.
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Catholic theologians from Global South a major force at international ethics conference
A worldwide gathering of theological ethicists in Sarajevo features almost 500 theological ethicists from 80 countries.
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Jesuit General: Pedro Arrupe’s cause for canonization underway
Jesuit leaders announce that the sainthood cause of Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J. has formally started.
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Tom Wolfe, America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Book Review
Remembering a great author…and cringing at some embarrassing prose.